Akron Art Museum, Akron Art Museum

In the early 1980s, Westlake Reed Leskosky preserved the former U.S. Post Office and adapted it into a distinguished museum of photography and contemporary art. In the last 20 years, the museum's programming needs increased. Our firm performed master planning and programming and associated with international design architects Coop Himmelb(l)au on a major addition completed in 2007, which increased the museum's size from 36,000 to 88,000 sf. Spatially, the expansion...

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art

Over the years, Westlake Reed Leskosky has designed numerous projects on behalf of the prestigious Cleveland Museum of Art, including galleries, the library, and a parking structure. We also designed the expansion of the museum's bookstore: spaces adjacent to the original store were annexed, doubling the available square footage, and allowing for the creation of a children's shop and a separate store for postcards, posters, stationary and other paper objects....

Cleveland Museum of Art, Gartner Auditorium Renovation

Westlake Reed Leskosky renovated the Gartner Auditorium in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The space, originally designed by Marcel Breuer in 1971, needed to be re-imaged, re-tuned, and technologically upgraded to accommodate the changing outreach and education needs of the Museum. The space now hosts films, lectures, dance and chamber music performances.

The project included the redesign of the walls, ceilings, and the stage for architectural and acoustic...

The City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement

This $40 million project for the City of Las Vegas will convert a historic former Post Office and Courthouse into a contemporary cultural destination in the heart of downtown. When completed, the 40,000 square foot museum will contain permanent and temporary exhibit galleries, administrative, retail, support and event spaces and will feature state-of-the-art interactive technology and exhibits. Westlake Reed Leskosky is providing Content Planning, Architecture, Engineering, and LEED/Sustainable Design consultation...

City of Yuma, Yuma Art Center

The Yuma Art Center is a unified performing and visual arts center featuring the Historic Yuma Theatre and highlighting a new two story museum, with a loggia compatible with the historic character of Main Street. Designed with integrated theatre technical services, this first phase includes upgrades to the historic theatre, renovations to an adjoining building for art studios and classrooms, an outdoor courtyard, and contemporary new construction housing art galleries...

Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Sited amongst a concentration of international-caliber museums and institutions, this Museum of Natural History seeks to express a pronounced civic presence, publicly exhibit its expansive collections and critical research components, display virtues of sustainability and environmental stewardship, and create immersive didactic exhibit environments. The proposed design solution selectively demolishes portions of the 220,000 SF existing museum in order to create a grand entry portal, generous multi-level public spaces, a remediation...

The Malrite Company, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage

The successful design competition celebrates the Jewish experience in Northeast Ohio in an elegant, iconic home for a remarkable collection of Judaica and traveling exhibitions. A simple rectangle form houses main exhibits and auditorium and is accessed from a lobby accentuated by floor to ceiling glass. With minimalist simplicity, excellent materials and craftsmanship, the building is clad with Jerusalem limestone, evoking the texture of ancient city walls. Adjacent to temple...

Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium

The Museum's new planetarium evokes precisely machined astronomical instruments, and takes the form of a chamfered cone, angled at its latitude and aligned with the North Star. The 60' high, titanium spattered stainless steel clad form enhances this prestigious cultural institution with a striking, sculptural quality and unique astronomical content. The challenge was to take a program that is traditionally circular in shape and without windows, and transform it into...

Patuxent River Naval Air Museum

Westlake Reed Leskosky is providing architectural and engineering services for the design of a new Patuxent River Naval Air Museum in Lexington Park, Maryland.WRL will provide concept plan, final schematic design, preparation of construction documents, construction cost estimates and construction support services.

The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum preserves and interprets the Patuxent River Naval Air Base history and heritage of advancing Naval aviation technology. This Museum is the...

Pro Football Hall of Fame, Pro Football Hall of Fame

Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained in 2010 by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio to develop a long-term master plan for its museum facility, campus, and adjacent properties. Founded in 1963, the Hall of Fame hosts 200,000 visitors a year as well as the annual Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremonies and Festival on the campus and in adjacent Fawcett Stadium. Fawcett Stadium, originally built in...

Gerry Foundation, Inc., The Museum at Bethel Woods

Part of the new Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, The Museum at Bethel Woods expresses a strong sense of place and complements the rural character of the iconic site.  The 40,000 sf structure, built of locally-quarried stone, copper, and an innovative laminated wood structure, includes a 10,000 sf Main Exhibit Gallery, 6,000 sf Special Exhibit Gallery, a 130 seat  Museum Theater, Museum...

City of Phoenix, Tovrea Castle Restoration

Tovrea Castle has been a beloved Phoenix landmark since its construction in 1929. Originally meant to be a hotel surrounded by a garden of exotic cacti, the building and grounds were purchased within two years by Edward A. Tovrea, a leader in Arizona's cattle industry. Mr. Tovrea died in 1932, leaving the estate to his wife, Della Tovrea, a socialite who later married William Stuart, publisher of the Prescott Daily...

Yorktown Victory Center Museum of the American Revolution

The mission of the Yorktown Victory Center is to present the history of the American Revolution; this new museum replaces three brick structures with a new structure that is organized principally on one (ground) floor with a partial lower level of support spaces and a partial mezzanine level.

The Yorktown Victory Center is comprised of building and site interpretive areas on a site designed to support...